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    Search the statutory (civil) registers of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland from 1855 to the present.

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    Search church registers of births (or baptisms), marriages and burials in Scotland from 1553 onwards.

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    Search the lists of people recorded in censuses taken every 10 years in Scotland from 1841 onwards.

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